Redact a JSON response using Python - python-3.x

Question

I am using Cognitive Read API to extract the text from an image. I am getting the response as below:
{
"status": "Succeeded",
"recognitionResult": {
"lines": [
{
"boundingBox": [
2,
52,
65,
46,
69,
89,
7,
95
],
"text": "$230",
"words": [
{
"boundingBox": [
0,
59,
63,
43,
77,
86,
3,
102
],
"text": "$230"
}
]
},
{
"boundingBox": [
6,
2,
771,
13,
770,
75,
5,
64
],
"text": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy",
"words": [
{
"boundingBox": [
0,
4,
92,
5,
77,
71,
0,
71
],
"text": "The"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
74,
4,
189,
5,
174,
72,
60,
71
],
"text": "quick"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
176,
5,
321,
6,
306,
73,
161,
72
],
"text": "brown"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
308,
6,
387,
6,
372,
73,
293,
73
],
"text": "fox"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
382,
6,
506,
7,
491,
74,
368,
73
],
"text": "jumps"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
492,
7,
607,
8,
592,
75,
478,
74
],
"text": "over"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
589,
8,
673,
8,
658,
75,
575,
75
],
"text": "the"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
660,
8,
783,
9,
768,
76,
645,
75
],
"text": "lazy"
}
]
},
{
"boundingBox": [
2,
84,
783,
96,
782,
154,
1,
148
],
"text": "$78,000.00",
"words": [
{
"boundingBox": [
0,
86,
94,
87,
72,
151,
0,
149
],
"text": "$78,000.00"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
76,
87,
164,
88,
142,
152,
54,
150
],
"text": "my"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
155,
88,
243,
89,
222,
152,
134,
151
],
"text": "box"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
226,
89,
344,
90,
323,
154,
204,
152
],
"text": "with"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
336,
90,
432,
91,
411,
154,
314,
154
],
"text": "five"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
419,
91,
538,
92,
516,
154,
398,
154
],
"text": "dozen"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
547,
92,
701,
94,
679,
154,
525,
154
],
"text": "liquor"
},
{
"boundingBox": [
696,
94,
800,
95,
780,
154,
675,
154
],
"text": "jugs"
}
]
}
]
}
}
Now my requirement is to mask all the amounts($230,$78,000.00) in the Json response with XXXXX or black out those numbers.
I am using azure notebooks to build the code in python 3.6.
Please help if anyone worked on this earlier.
Thank You!

Answer 1

You can't control the JSON response, but you can control what you show to your users from the response!
You can check for each text returned if it includes the $ character and remove everything that comes after it!
Here's an example:
text = 'some text$ this part will be removed.'
head, sep, tail = text.partition('$')
print(head) will show "some text"
print(sep) will show "$"
print(tail) will show " this part will be removed."